In criminal defense, the details you miss can cost your client everything
From discovery to post trial, CoCounsel Legal gives criminal defense attorneys the AI-powered research, drafting, and analysis tools to work faster and walk into every courtroom fully prepared
Your clients can't afford for you to be buried in paperwork
CoCounsel Legal gives you back the time and clarity to build cases that win.
You have 10,000 pages of discovery and only 48 hours to respond
Find what matters fast. CoCounsel Legal summarizes large discovery sets in minutes — so nothing gets missed and no deadline gets blown.
Cut discovery-related document review by up to 63% by summarizing large discovery sets in minutes.
Every hour reconstructing events is an hour off case strategy
Build every timeline you need — charging, arrest, complaint, and pre-complaint — to find the gaps, inconsistencies, and facts that matter with automatic extraction and updates as new materials arrive.
Create timelines 79% faster by extracting key events across multiple documents and updating as new materials arrive.
Every jurisdiction plays by different rules
State or federal, CoCounsel Legal gives you instant, jurisdiction-specific procedural guidance so you can make every move with confidence.
Respond to client questions 83% faster so you can convert leads sooner and keep clients informed in high-stress matters.
Spend less time searching for answers and more time serving clients with CoCounsel Legal
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CoCounsel Legal: One comprehensive AI solution that supports your legal work from start to finish
When you're wearing many hats, CoCounsel Legal has your back
Criminal defense doesn't slow down for busy work. CoCounsel Legal accelerates the analysis, research, drafting, and prep so you can stay focused on your client and your strategy.
CoCounsel Legal helps you deliver better results:
- Respond to client inquiries 83% faster, with instant access to trusted legal authority and case analysis.
- Recover nearly five hours a week — at a $250 billing rate, that's up to $60,000 in additional billable time annually.
- Find 51% more key information during discovery review, so nothing material gets missed.
Every case gets your best work — no matter how full your docket is
As your caseload grows, CoCounsel Legal ensures every motion, every filing, and every client interaction reflects the standard your firm is built on.
CoCounsel Legal helps you deliver better results:
- Verify every source before signing off — direct links make quality control fast and confident.
- Build timelines and chronologies for every case — 79% faster — by automatically extracting key events across multiple documents.
- Arrive at every deposition fully prepared with tailored questions to establish your witness's credibility or expose inconsistencies in theirs.
Complex cases demand more; CoCounsel Legal helps you deliver
With more than 75 prebuilt criminal defense workflows, CoCounsel Legal ensures federal and multijurisdictional cases never leave you with gaps.
CoCounsel Legal helps you deliver better results:
- Know exactly how your court rules — on sentencing, on procedure, on precedent — before you walk in.
- Take cases you previously would have declined — Deep Research gets you to proficiency fast in unfamiliar areas of criminal law.
- Tap into federal-specific content — sentencing guidelines, grand jury guides, and criminal rules handbooks — purpose-built for complex cases.
Why you can trust CoCounsel Legal
When a client's freedom is at stake, "good enough" isn't good enough. CoCounsel Legal delivers verifiable answers grounded in authoritative Westlaw and Practical Law content and expertise so you can be confident your results are thorough and accurate.
"Deep Research — it went from good to truly astounding..."
David R. Drwencke
Criminal defense attorney, Fouder, DRD Law, LLC
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The transformative power of GenAI in CoCounsel
"What CoCounsel has allowed us to do is efficiently manage massive amounts of data and become more responsive to our clients’ needs, in a timelier fashion."
Ted Schaer, Chairman of Litigation at Zarwin Baum
Better work, less stress at Bochetto & Lentz
“We knew that Westlaw had the database we needed. We knew it had the cases we needed. We knew there were tools already useful to us. So, when CoCounsel merged with Westlaw, it just made perfect sense to continue to use those products together.”
Kiersty DeGroote, Associate Attorney at Bochetto & Lentz
Turbocharging legal tasks with CoCounsel generative AI
"A task that would previously have taken an hour was completed in five minutes or less."
Jarret Colemen, General Counsel at Century Communities
Frequently asked questions
CoCounsel Legal is the most advanced, single AI tool for legal professionals. It supports your end-to-end legal process, from early case assessment and discovery review to pretrial motion drafting and deposition prep, and all the way through post-trial. Access over 75 prebuilt prompts and workflows built for criminal defense attorneys to help you build your strategy and support your client better and faster.
CoCounsel Legal is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. Simply describe what you need in natural language — no prompting expertise required. To help you hit the ground running, CoCounsel includes a library of over 200 prebuilt prompts covering common legal tasks, from research and drafting to document analysis.
Yes, CoCounsel Legal uses generative AI and agentic AI to power capabilities like deep research, litigation document analysis, and end-to-end agentic workflows that help transform the way legal professionals work. Grounded in trusted Westlaw and Practical Law content, CoCounsel Legal provides verifiable results, so you can feel confident your work is thorough and accurate.
Yes. CoCounsel Legal is SOC2 and ISO certified. Your data is never used to train AI models or shared with other users, which is the primary concern attorneys have when working with privileged client documents.
CoCounsel Legal supports your entire workflow — from early case assessment and discovery review to pretrial motion drafting, deposition prep, trial preparation, and catching errors in opposing counsel's filings. It houses over 75 prebuilt prompts and workflows built specifically for criminal attorneys.
Spend less time digging through evidence and more time on your client strategy
Criminal defense is evidence intensive, jurisdictionally diverse, and deadline heavy. CoCounsel Legal provides the tools, workflows, and content you need to manage complex evidence, navigate multiple jurisdictions, and meet critical deadlines.
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